Mickey Knox (Born Abraham
Bullistein) Claimed he was blacklisted during the McCarthy era and was forced
to move to Paris and Rome to work. But there is something not right about his
story.
Knox, who at best was a bit part
player and extra, claimed that he was blacklisted because he signed a petition called
“The Thomas Rankin Committee Must Go” and that he had attended the Actor’s Lab,
a Communist front. He said that his signature on a friends of the court document
to the US Supreme Court to hear the case against John Howard Lawson and Dalton
Trumbo, who were writers with the Hollywood Ten, is the true reason his career
was blacklisted. But more than a thousand actors signed the Rankin petition and
several hundred actors signed the Supreme
Court petition and they weren’t blacklisted.
Knox said that he learned he was
blacklisted in 1956. He made his last appearance in the US in the fall of 1957,
so it’s safe to assume he left the US
later that year. He returned to the US
from Europe on January 23, 1959, meaning he was “exiled” as he put it,
for two years.
It seems that Knox couldn’t cut
it as an actor, producer or writer in Hollywood (He would do all of those
things later in his career) and he “fled”
to Europe claiming to be a blacklisted actor.
Knox made six film in 1949 and
was uncredited in one of them and fewer than 3 lines in the others. He made one
film in 1948, a bit part and two in 1947
1950
Destination Big House
Western Pacific Agent
Outside the Wall
1951
1Saturday's Hero
Criminal Lawyer
Danger (TV Series)
Up Front
No credits for 1952
1953
Campbell Summer Soundstage (TV
Series)
Vice Squad (uncredited)
1954
Garden of Eden
1955
The Naked Street (Actor)
Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Treasury Men in Action (TV
Series)
TV Reader's Digest (TV Series)
The Lone Ranger (TV Series)
Dan Reid's Sacrifice
The Naked Street (dialogue
director)
1956
Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (TV
Series)
Adventures of Superman (TV
Series)
Singing in the Dark (Actor)
Singing in the Dark (dialogue
director)
1957
The Sea Wall (dialogue coach)
1957
